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Sunday 24 December 2000:
Tim Stowell wishes everyone a merry Christmas by reposting a humorous
genealogy wish list. [see below].
Monday 25 December 2000:
Pam Reid also wishes everyone a merry Christmas.
Betsy Mills asks where the group is on the application for the Service
Mark [motion 00-39]
Holly Tim replies that Tim was checking out the online forms and suggests
that since neither she or he has any knowledge of this process or any
"direct contact with legal advice" that the Board ask John Schunk "who has
been so helpful already" to assist with the actual application.
[Hmmm...last time I checked he wasn't a lawyer or experienced with service
mark applications either. Oh well, you get what you pay for.]
Monday 26 December 2000:
Holly posts the following message regarding the USGenWeb get-together at
the GenTech conference:
"Things have been moving a bit fast on the GenTech thing.... We have been
given a booth at no charge --- Booth 37... I have paid the fee for the
electrical hookup and Tina Vickery (THANKS!!!!) is paying for the phone
hookup so we can have live demos of USGenWeb Project pages and live chat
sessions. On Saturday we will have two laptops hooked up to regular
monitors. One will have a looping USGenWeb project presentation and the
other will be used for the online stuff. Saturday booth coverage is set
and Friday booth coverage is being arranged. Betsy has volunteered to
check our hookups for electric and phone first thing as she is arriving
Thursday night and will also bring whatever brochures and such I can get
sent off to her ahead of time. The thing I need most and all of you can
help... is brochures, flyers, miniflyers (1/3 of a page both sides) for
states and counties... we really ought to have as big a selection and
variety of printed promotional material to spread out on the table as we
can showing off the variety and breadth of the project to the visitors.
Saturday GenTech is having a material to spread out on the table as we can
showing off the variety and breadth of the project to the visitors.
Saturday GenTech is having a special family History Day promotion that
will bring in a lot of people at a reduced rate... aimed at the beginning
genealogist or beginning with computerized genealogy anyway. Please don't
let your county/state be unrepresented in the handouts!!!! I have slapped
together a page about USGenWeb at Gentech at:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygenweb/gentech.html with a list of who has said
they are coming at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygenweb/gentechlist.html "
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Misattribution Corner: Looks like our Beloved National Coordinator
moonlights as a copyright violator. The little Christmas message that he
sent to the -ALL list, the SC-L list, and apparently several state lists
as well was not only misattributed to something called the "Parkhurst
Family Journal" but was most definitely posted without the author's
permission. The author, Barbara Brown, is none too pleased about this
misrepresentation of her work and has requested that the attribution be
corrected and her permission be obtained before her work is promulgated
further. [If you want to view the "wish list" its posted, with proper
attribution, at: http://www.iigs.org/newsletter/9808news/genhum.htm.en;
its kind of cute, hope you enjoy it!]
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"The measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he never
would be found out."
---Thomas Macaulay
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-Teresa Lindquist
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From merope@Radix.Net Fri Dec 29 10:26:12 2000
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 10:26:08 -0500 (EST)
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Thursday 28 December 2000:
Ginger Hayes forwards a message from Barbara Brown that was sent to her as
the admin of the -ALL list [Ms. Brown is the author of the humorous essay
"I Want" that Tim Stowell forwarded without permission to all of
creation]. Ginger asks Tim to contact Ms. Brown and "correct whatever the
problem is." [Ginger also forwards this to the -ALL list. Apparently
although Ms. Brown contacted Tim at multiple email addresses several
days ago he has not extended to her the courtesy of a response.]
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Setting the Record Straight Corner: Several days ago, our Much Esteemed
National Coordinator announced on the State-Coord list that Linda Mason
and Belinda Houston [respectively SC and ASC of MSGenWeb] had resigned.
Yesterday, Linda wrote to correct him, noting that her resignation is not
effective until January 30, 2001 and Belinda will not be leaving until
February. In a bit of good news for MSGW CCs, Linda also reports that
"Several CC's have expressed some interest in the positions and MSGW has
a interim State Coordinator plan should they decide not to throw their
hats in the ring."
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Today's quote was sent in by a reader:
"But when a PERSON or group of PERSONS don't answer their email it
reflects badly on the project/group they work within. Ultimately there is
a person as the lead person of a group/sub-group who must take
responsibility for the actions not only of their own but of those they
purport to lead."
---Tim Stowell, USGENWEB-ALL, 7 Jun 2000
This has been your Daily Board Show.
-Teresa Lindquist
merope@radix.net
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